Earth blessing
Erdsegen is a novel in letter form by Peter Rosegger from 1900 .
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The Vienna Business Journalist Hans Traut Dorfer betting New Year's Eve 1899 / 1900 with its editor Dr. von Stein for 20,000 crowns that he would be able to give up his well-paid and comfortable position and instead swap the plentifully enjoyed urban pleasures for the hard life of a mountain farmer's farmhand for a whole year.
However, already in the search for a rural employer (who is willing to take in a so-called "city tailcoat" and thus supposedly "godless" people as servants) he encounters initial difficulties and his transfigured idea of rural life is subsequently caused by the merciless one Everyday life finally destroyed.
Despite several offers from the publisher to declare the bet null and void and to be able to return to the press as head of the business editorial department, Trautendorfer stayed on the farm and fell in love with the farmer's daughter, the an illegitimate child expected from the local village school teacher.
The story ends with the death of the old "Adamshauser farmer" and the marriage of the unequal couple. Trautendorfer does not get the money from the bet because the newspaper he was employed by no longer exists, and the publisher Dr. disappeared from stone. His letters from last year are published as a book, for which he receives a fee of ten thousand guilders.
Adaptations
Erdsegen was by Felix Mitterer brought into screenplay form and Karin Brandauer in 1985 in gases , in Styria , for ORF / ZDF - TV movie staged. The production, in which Dietrich Siegl the central figure, the author of "confidential Sunday letters" Hans Traut Dorfer plays was in 1986 with the Erich Neuberg Award for Best ORF -Fernsehfilm of the Year 1985 award.
In 2011, the brandluckner Huab'n Theater theater group premiered the novel as a play directed by Sigmut Wratschgo.
In 2017 Erdsegen celebrated its premiere as a play by the Gaststubentheater Gößnitz under the direction of Jürgen Gerger.
Web links
- Erdsegen (1986) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Lankowitz: The lounge theater celebrated its premiere in the Grabenmühle. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .